Oct 4 • My Tools and Products
🚀 WE GOT OUR OWN SERVER! FixIt 2.0 Relaunch + Lifetime Pricing
🚀 WE GOT OUR OWN SERVER! FixIt 2.0 Relaunch + Lifetime Pricing
Hey everyone!
Big news - after months of running on expensive cloud infrastructure, we finally pulled the trigger on our own hardware.
Last week, we installed a Dell PowerEdge R740xd in our rack.
This isn't just a hardware upgrade. This changed EVERYTHING about how we can run FixIt.
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💰 THE ECONOMICS THAT FORCED THIS DECISION
Cloud Costs (What We Were Paying):
- Compute: $400/month
- Storage: $150/month
- Bandwidth: $80/month
- TOTAL: $630/month = $7,560/year
Our Server:
- Power: ~$50/month
- Internet: Already paying
- TOTAL: $50/month = $600/year
Break-even: 24 months
Savings after year 3: $7,000+/year
But the real win isn't just cost. It's CONTROL.
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⚡ THE PERFORMANCE TRANSFORMATION
Before (Cloud Infrastructure):
❌ 300-500ms average response time
❌ 4.7M solutions (storage limits)
❌ 95% uptime (shared resources)
❌ Throttling during peak usage
❌ Can't optimize hardware
❌ Expensive to scale
After (Our Server):
✅ 29-100ms average response time (10x faster!)
✅ 18.5M solutions (4x larger database)
✅ 99.9% uptime guarantee
✅ Zero throttling, ever
✅ Custom optimizations for our workload
✅ Predictable, fixed costs
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🖥️ THE HARDWARE SPECS
We didn't cheap out. This is enterprise-grade:
Dell PowerEdge R740xd:
- CPU: Dual Intel Xeon Silver 4216 (32 cores, 2.10GHz)
- RAM: 314GB DDR4 ECC
- Storage: 13TB RAID6 array
- GPU: Dual NVIDIA Tesla T4 (30GB VRAM)
- Network: Dual 10GbE
- Power: Redundant power supplies
- Uptime: 99.9% SLA
Database:
- Size: 82.9GB (was 20GB on cloud)
- Records: 18,563,455 Stack Overflow solutions
- Engine: Custom-optimized SQLite with FTS5
- Index: Multi-column full-text search
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💎 NEW PRICING (BECAUSE WE OWN THE HARDWARE)
Here's what's amazing: because we control costs now, we can offer pricing that actually makes sense for developers.
🆓 FREE TIER:
- 100 searches per day
- Full API access
- No credit card required
- Perfect for hobbyists & learning
💎 PRO TIER: $29/month
- 10,000 searches per day (~333/hour)
- That's $0.0001 per search
- Priority support
- Advanced features
🚀 FULL SUITE: $150/month
- All our current products
- All future products we launch
- Unlimited searches across all tools
- Direct engineering support
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🔒 LIFETIME PRICING GUARANTEE
This is the most important part:
SIGN UP TODAY = YOUR PRICE LOCKS IN FOREVER
- Pro at $29/month? That's your rate for life.
- Suite at $150/month? Never changes.
- We're raising prices next quarter. Early adopters don't pay more.
Why can we do this? Because our costs are now fixed.
We're not passing cloud provider price hikes to you. We own the infrastructure.
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📊 REAL PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS
Here's the same queries on v1 (cloud) vs v2 (our server):
"python TypeError invalid literal"
- v1: 380ms → v2: 29ms (13x faster)
"React useState not updating"
- v1: 520ms → v2: 155ms (3.4x faster)
"SQL injection prevention best practices"
- v1: 450ms → v2: 312ms (1.4x faster)
"Django REST framework authentication"
- v1: 680ms → v2: 225ms (3x faster)
Average improvement: 5-10x faster across the board
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🎯 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
If you're a developer:
- Start free with 100 searches/day
- Upgrade to Pro when you need more
- Lock in $29/month pricing before we raise it
If you're a team:
- $150/month gets your whole team all our tools
- Way cheaper than current cloud-based alternatives
- Locked-in pricing = predictable budgets
If you're building a product:
- Use our API in your product
- Predictable per-search costs
- Never worry about our cloud bills forcing price increases
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🚀 TRY IT NOW
Live URL: https://fixit.built-simple.ai
Start free:
1. No sign up needed to test (100/day starts after sign up)
2. Search any error or coding question
3. See the speed difference yourself
Lock in pricing:
1. Create account
2. Choose plan
3. Your rate = locked forever
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📈 RELAUNCH TIMELINE
- Today: Soft relaunch to community
- Tomorrow: Product Hunt relaunch with early-adopter pricing
- Next Week: Pricing increases for new sign-ups
- Next Month: Rolling out Suite features
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💭 LESSONS FROM THIS JOURNEY
1. Do the math on cloud vs. owned:
• Cloud makes sense early
• Owned makes sense at scale
• We hit the inflection point at ~$500/month
2. Hardware isn't scary:
• Proxmox makes server management easy
• LXC containers = cloud-like flexibility
• RAID6 = peace of mind
3. Control matters:
• Custom optimizations we couldn't do on cloud
• No throttling during peak
• Direct hardware access for debugging
4. Price what you control:
• Variable cloud costs = unpredictable pricing
• Fixed hardware costs = locked-in pricing
• Better for customers AND us
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🤔 QUESTIONS I CAN ANSWER
- How we chose the Dell PowerEdge
- Why we went with owned vs. colo
- The server setup process
- How we migrated from cloud
- Cost breakdown and ROI
- Performance optimization techniques
- RAID6 vs other redundancy options
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🎁 SPECIAL OFFER FOR THIS COMMUNITY
Because you're here early, I want to do something special:
First 50 people to sign up for Pro or Suite get an extra month free.
Just mention "Skool early adopter" when you sign up.
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❓ HELP ME OUT
1. Try FixIt 2.0 - even just the free tier
2. Tell me what you think - honest feedback only
3. Drop your toughest error - I'll search it live
4. Share if you find it useful - we're relaunching on PH tomorrow
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This is what happens when you stop renting and start owning 💪
Who else is running their own hardware? What made you switch?
Drop your questions below!
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